Price Interventions as a Part of Living Income Strategies: Lessons learned from piloting a price premium mechanism for basmati rice farmers in Pakistan
| dc.contributor.author | Alestig, Mira | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-03-01T09:11:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-03-01T09:11:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2023-03-06 | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.21201/2023.621486 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10546/621486 | |
| dc.description | <html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <p>Small-scale farmers produce many globally important products such as rice, cocoa, cotton and vanilla. Poverty is widespread among these farmers, and there is an urgent need to increase their incomes.</p><p>A living income – what a household needs to afford a decent standard of living for all its members – is a human right. It is increasingly recognized that paying a living income is the responsibility of businesses. Pricing is a vital part part of this, but raising the prices paid to farmers can be complicated, and many companies still treat it with scepticism.</p><p>This paper presents lessons learned from the piloting of a novel price premium mechanism in Pakistan. The goal of the price intervention, which targeted basmati rice farmers in Punjab province, was to make a meaningful contribution to the incomes of the most vulnerable small-scale farmers, while at the same time identifying appropriate mechanisms to minimize costs to retailers and/or consumers. The pilot indicates that price, in combination with other complementary measures, can effectively contribute to closing the income gap for even the most vulnerable small-scale farmers, but that any mechanism to raise prices must be designed carefully.</p><p>The intervention was part of the wider <a href="https://graisea.github.io/">GRAISEA</a> programme, which supports farmers and food producers in South-East Asia.</p> </body> </html> | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 49 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Oxfam | en_US |
| dc.relation.url | http://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/price-interventions-as-a-part-of-living-income-strategies-lessons-learned-from-621486 | |
| dc.subject | Food and livelihoods | en_US |
| dc.subject | Gender | en_US |
| dc.subject | Inequality | en_US |
| dc.subject | Private sector | en_US |
| dc.subject | Rights | en_US |
| dc.title | Price Interventions as a Part of Living Income Strategies: Lessons learned from piloting a price premium mechanism for basmati rice farmers in Pakistan | en_US |
| dc.type | Discussion paper | en_US |
| oxfam.signoff.status | For public use. Can be shared outside Oxfam | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.country | Pakistan | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Agriculture | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | GRAISEA | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Living income | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Price intervention | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Rice | en_US |
| oxfam.subject.keyword | Supply chains | en_US |
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